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  1. Re:Stalag 13? on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 1
    mmm.. I think you mean Newkirk if you're refering to one of Hogan's Heroes, particularly Cpl. Peter Newkirk played by Richard Dawson.

    Dunkirk is a port city in the north of France, from which British and French troops were evacuated in June 1940 when France fell to the German Blitzkrieg.

  2. Re:Don't believe what you read!!! on Wireless Sensors Monitor Glacier Behavior · · Score: 3, Funny

    But of course. It's a well-known fact that the glacier is just a weapon of the Iceberg Liberation Front (ILF) used to target capitalist shipping fleets.

  3. Re:Oh yeah on The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Majel.

  4. Re:Uhh on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    This announcement has nothing to do with Sash.

  5. Re:anyone spotted that this is Eclipse based yet? on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    Actually, the replication technology for most of the Workplace Client (including Office-like documents)is SyncML with Cloudscape for the local db. If (when) the embedded Notes client is delivered it will retain NRPC replication.

  6. Re:Not an IBM Hosted service on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up; he gets it. Jnfortunately I'm posting in the thread and can't.

  7. Re:Java Applet Using SWT? on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    You're getting pretty close... think Eclipse which is SWT of course.

  8. Re:tough sell to management on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1
    Wrong. You must eventually be connected to the internet (or your corporate network more likely) for email to work. Lotus Notes users have been able to work offline with email, including creating and sending messages, for 12+ years. Messages are simply held until a server connection is available.

    Oh, and BTW, some airlines are talking about internet access for laptop users on planes in the near future; don't think anyone has it deployed yet however.

  9. Re:Pricing? on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 2, Informative
    IBM Business Partner here.

    Don't automatically assume this is a hosted, subscription-model pricing. Despite all the 'On-Demand' concept marketing, most IBM software is still licensed on a server per processor and/or per user pricing model with reduced annual maintenance cost after the first year that includes upgrades and support.

    The "$2/user/month" statement is just a marketing way of reducing the perceived cost of the product ; a "less than a cup of (Starbucks) coffee per user per month" kind of thing. They used the same technique to describe the cost of Lotus Workplace Messaging during its initial introduction. The percieved monthly cost they talked about in that case was derived by factoring the monthly average over three years including one year initial license acquisition and two years of maintenance cost for a licensed user. Probably the same thing here.

  10. Re:Or Frogger on 5th Avenue! on PacManhattan Relocates Classic Game To New York Streets · · Score: 1
    No, thankfully I haven't. Seinfeld sucks. I hated his standup and hated the TV show. I do not watch it.

    I will not watch it in a house; I will not watch it with a mouse.

  11. Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    It's less about whether both parents work and more about what values and priorities the parents instill in their children. Both my parents worked for my entire childhood and teenage years, but they read to me at an early age and set a priority on education. Growing up, it was never a question in my mind whether I would go to college, but only where and what I might study.

  12. Re:"Failing business?" on ClearChannel Complains About XM, Sirius Radio · · Score: 1
    I'm sure what you hear on 99X is the same as what is played on every Susquehanna station...

    Dude, you posted the link to Susquehanna's site and from it they link to each of their stations' individual websites; it would have taken you about 30 seconds longer to click through and see that The Bone and 99X have nowhere near the same format, and therefore, playlist.

    The other Susquehanna station here in Atlanta, Q100, has a different format than either.

  13. Re:Doesn't support Safari on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    Firefox on Windoze is just fine.

  14. Re:If you don't have a C/S degree, get one on To Recertify, or Not Recertify? · · Score: 1

    Interesting; after 12+ years in the IT industry and still holding a good job as a consultant; I'm currently applying to law school myself. Same premise; someone who can practice tech law and understand exactly what is being considered/discussed.

  15. Re:Don't paypal these guys anything. on Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ummm... can you cite any evidence for this allegation? Are you an expert in Space Vehicle Restoration? Perhaps you missed the part where they plan to do more than slap a coat of paint on it like move it so that it can be sheltered from the elements?

    Moderators: this was Insightful? please...

  16. Re:No Notes client for Linux? on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    He meant Mozilla. The actual release notes shipped with Domino 6.5 specifiy Mozilla 1.3.1 (for Linux clients only) running on Red Hat 7.2, 8.0, 9; SuSE 8.0 (united Linux 1.0) and SuSE 8.0.

  17. Re:No Notes client for Linux? on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1
    Domino will run on Linux, but I don't think Lotus makes a Notes client. I've recently wondered why. Maybe IBM would just assume dump it than port it to Linux. Fine with me. The most horrible software ever made.

    It's the cost stupid. Consider there may be upwards of 40M lines of code in the Notes client. And it's not just the pure development cost of the port either; it's testing and support, etc. See Ed Brill's blog.

  18. Re:Lotus Notes already runs on Linux on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1
    That article is a complete misrepresentation of what was said at the conference. Deborah Magrid, the IBMer referred to in the article, has made a statement to IBM business partners declaring it a misquote and explaining what was really said.

    Does the Inquirer ever retract erroneous articles?

  19. Re:I wouldn't bet on that on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1
    SmartSuite has been in 'support' mode for quite some time; not a lot of development talent/experience left in that group. Porting the big Win32 apps realy wouldn't be cost-effective.

    However, several years ago, they produced a set of Java based productivity applets (ahead of their time) that the source for is sure to be laying around somewhere.

  20. Re:winder if a new DE will come out of this on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1
    Exactly! Portal apps in Mozilla. Finally someone who reads other public IBM info and not just rumor from the Inquirer.

    Mod parent up! (I can't because of my previous post.)

    The other part of the equation is Eclipse. It's not just an IDE framework anymore. If you've been paying attention to it lately, you know that it's a framework that can support a Rich Client as well. And it runs on Linux.

  21. Re:Access on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I used to work at company (a pretty big company with revenue of $1 bn +) that had IBM as its largest client, and we were compelled to use Lotus Notes, 123, Wordpro, and Freelance. Really very crappy programs, btw.

    You're kidding right? This is just one of those 'it's different from Microsoft so it must be bad' kind of comments isn't it? The fact is that 123, WordPro, and Freelance have had features for years that are easier and better and are still unmatched by the Microsoft equivalent program.

  22. Re:Fees? on Working Toward Roaming For Wireless ISPs · · Score: 1

    I don't have to pay that high for machines where I live (actually don't usually pay at all because I restrict my local ATM usage to my bank), but when you get into captive user situations, you can see fees as high as $3.50 (think bars, French Quarter, other touristy spots).

  23. Re:GOOD IDEA!!!! on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Now, if the reader of slashdot were to buy the shares of another unnamed company with a 3 letter name and with the voting power amassed there choose to force the purchase of SCO, well, that has the possiblity of working.

    There's a big problem with your plan; that other 3-letter acronym named company is at the other end of the shares available spectrum at 1.72 billion shares outstanding. There's no way Slashdotters could obtain the necessary shares of IBM to control it, especially when you consider the institutional ownership.

    SCOX:
    Shares Outstanding: 13.85M
    % Held by Insiders: 45.83%
    % Held by Institutions: 31.87%

    IBM:
    Shares Outstanding: 1.72B
    % Held by Insiders: 1.00%
    % Held by Institutions: 56.44%

  24. Re:It's a program, it's a protocol on Kermit Alive and Well on the Space Station · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if you use it for one, you don't want to use it for the other.

  25. Re:Did anyone read the information? on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1
    What I find to be most interesting is how very much of the Remail client UI is doable in Notes right now

    The ReMail project isn't new at all; I saw one version of it almost two years ago at Lotusphere. That one was built using DHTML, etc. in a browser hitting a normal Domino server.

    I imagine the new rich client announced recently (to be delivered on Eclipse) will connect to Domino or Workplace Messaging or various other POP3 or IMAP servers.